Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 13:27:57 -0700 From: Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Can't we retire this thing ? Yeah, but not _now_. After the release. I'm not sure that any packages use it, but many packages source it. In the next release of sysvinit, Bruce, you should remove the . /etc/init.d/functions line from the top of the /etc/init.d/skeleton script. That will result in it not appearing in any new scripts. At some point after the release, we can mandate that all packages be modified not to use the /etc/init.d/function script. Then, after all packages have been fixed, we can remove /etc/init.d/functions. As Bruce said, however, this should happen after the release. (In the meantime, /etc/init.d/functions could be modified to do nothing, so it doesn't disable exection of the scripts from the shell, as the current script does.)
